Wire fabric for bedsprings and other articles



July 7, 1936. J. LADEN 2,046,564

WIRE FABRIC FOR BEDSPRINGS AND OTHER ARTICLES Filed June 1, 1955 11 TTURN/I YS.

Patented July 7, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE WIRE FABRIC FORBEDSPRINGS AND OTHER ARTICLES Application June 1, 1935, Serial No.24,525

3 Claims.

The invention relates to wire fabrics and more particularly to a certainmember used in the fabric. It has for its main'object to provide a wirefabric member which may be used in a 5 great many ways in combinationwith links and spiral springs for building up the wire fabric. Anotherobject is to provide a wire fabric which will have a fiat even surfacewhich will not cause wear or tear on the padding or bedding placed ontop of the fabric. A further object is to provide a wire fabric whichmay be used for numerous purposes in the upholstery art and which can bemanufactured at a low cost and assembled with a minimum expenditure oftime and labor.

These and various other objects and advantages will be readilyunderstood from the following description and from the accompanyingdrawing of a preferred embodiment of the invention, in which, however,modifications may be made without departing from the scope of theappended claims. In the drawing Fig. 1 is a fragmental plan View showinga form of fabric made up in accordance to the invention, and

Fig. 2 is a side view of Fig. 1.

Referring now to the drawing, the fabric consists of a plurality oflinks [0 and a plurality of interlacing helical springs II. The linksmay be made of wire, as shown by the links marked H], or they may bemade up of flat metal straps, as shown by the links [0A and [013. Thehelical springs H are flattened as plainly shown in Fig. 2 so as to notrise much above the surface of the fabric and they are preferably madeof flat metal strips.

These helical springs are woven into the links by turning them and theyengage the hooks in the manner plainly shown on the drawing. Not onlymay these spiral strips be used for connecting the links of the fabrictogether but they may also be used for securing spiral springs 12 to thefabric. These spiral springs are held in the same convolutions of thehelical springs as are the hooks l0 and may be used to give additionalsupport to the whole fabric. The helical springs are also used forattaching the fabric to the frame. It will of course, be understood thatthe design of the fabric shown might be varied in a great many ways andstill be within the scope of the claims.

From the foregoing it will be seen that this fabric consists of verysimple elements which can be manufactured and assembled very rapidly andat low cost.

Having described the invention and its objects, what I claim as new andwish to protect by Letters Patent is:

1. A wire fabric of the class described comprising a plurality of links,a plurality of helical springs and a plurality of spiral springs; oneend of each of the links secured in one side of one of the helicalsprings and the other end of each of the links secured in the other sideof another of the helical springs to form a fabric for covering the topconvolutions of the spiral springs; and said top convolutions of thespiral springs woven into the convolutions of two adjacent helicalsprings to secure them to the fabric.

2. A wire fabric of the class described comprising a plurality ofU-shaped links, a plurality of fiat helical springs and a plurality ofspiral springs; one end of each of the links secured in one side of oneof the helical springs and the other end 01' each of the links securedin the other side of another of the helical springs to form a fabric forcovering the top convolutions of the spiral springs; and said topconvolutions of the spiral springs woven into the convolutions of twoadjacent helical springs to secure them to the fabric.

3. A wire fabric of the class described comprising a plurality of links,a plurality of helical springs and a plurality of spiral springs; oneend of each of the links secured in one side of one of the helicalsprings and the other end of each of the links secured in the other sideof another of the helical springs to form a fabric for covering the topconvolutions of the spiral springs; said top convolutions of the spiralsprings Woven into the convolutions of two adjacent helical springs tosecure them to the fabric, and the spiral springs so located in relationto the fabric that each spiral spring will have a link passing over it.

JOSEPH LADEN.

